Outstanding ep, GV. Good job, big man! 😉
I’ve been on vacation, so I’m catching up.
Great story… I was was beginning to think that the guy that pulled you over was a “hot cop”, and it was all a big joke. But no banana, huh. What I want to know is, why in the world did he pull you over in the first place?
Ah well. There’s no place like home.
QOTD: My soap- Days of Our Lives.

QOTD: Taking two hour long bubble baths in the whirlpool tub, with a nice bottle of Champagne (preferably single grower) and one of my books on wine to relax and read. Two loves, one place.

Nice to see some serious Zin coming out. I dunno about Coppola, he kinda makes his wine like Disney. $25 Entrance fee to the estate? Kinda lost some respect there, but I understand, his estate is probably overrun with tourists.

QOTD: oh dear, i can’t believe i’m admitting to this, watching Laguna Beach/The Hills on MTV…

Gary, I live in Ohio but spent a week in LA last year-only saw one cop and only one person pulled over the entire time I was there! Crazy story. I must admit I was never into wine or any alcohol until about four years ago when we went out with some friends to a nice restaurant. They were wine drinkers so I ordered a bottle of Coppola Shiraz (yes I’m a movie geek and I ordered it just because it was “THE” Coppola). Bottle was $40-and I really liked it. Later I went out and bought several bottles (at $15-I quickly learned about price mark-up in restaurants) and have been drinking wine since. I don’t know if I would still like that wine today or not, but I have a bottle in the cellar that I’ll pop one of these days.
QOTD: Myspace-I’ve met and talked to people I would never have in a million years otherwise.

Dude,
Just catching up on some eps I missed while traving.
QOTD: guilty pleasure…wine collecting 🙂

Gary — too funny!!

QOTD: guilty pleasure.. fork a Perugina Baci and dip it in Nutella hazelnut chocolate spread!!

Holy crap, dude! That must have been scary as hell.

I got pulled over for speeding in N.C. one time and the cop asked me to come back and sit in the front seat of the squad car. I thought, “Oh no”. He was trying to scare me (thinking I was a college student) about my future if my insurance rates went up. But sitting in that squad car was scary enough. Anyway, I just got a warning that time.

I love Red Zinfandel. I’m definitely going to have to check out the Sky & Haywood.

QOTD: My guilty pleasure has to be Christina Aguilera. My musical taste is generally rock: Pearl Jam, White Stripes, Green Day. But I loves me some xtina.

QOTD: Eating a whole pint of Ben & Jerry’s or Starbucks ice cream.

Great show!

Guilty pleasure was up until the end of the show Gilmore Girls. Since I am a big fan of Zinds this was fun, probably much more fun than getting arrested in LA. As a passenger I’ve never been asked for a driver’s license at a stop so I guess some bad luck there. Are the Sky and Haywood pretty available?

GV: Eric, smell this.
Eric: Smells like wine.
GV: Eric, taste this.
Eric: Tastes like grapes.

Gary, I love your honesty and enthusiasm. I’m new to wine, but have found that Zin and Cab are my favorites. I like something that lingers for oh… eternity. Could you do an episode on a winery from Washington state called L’Cole 41? I love their wine, and they are good people. Very streight forward wines. I didn’t really like Chardonay much, but their 2005 changed my mind in a big way. I would love to hear your view on it.

Awesome, never heard of Sky, you made me want to try it. I’m getting sick of these explosive zins, they were fun for awhile.

Bring a video camera next time you go to a Raiders game. I’d love to see an 80 year old grandma in Road Warriors gear get in a three-point stance and charge at you! Next time do a head slap and slide to the right.

Good call on Roger Clemens not doing anything when he came back to the Yanks.

Ouch. Id be dropping bricks all over the place once I got my hands in the cuffs. Nice to see everything worked out. For some reason I was thinking the way you were telling the story the cop knew who you were and was having a bit of fun with you. And as I watch this, I have indeed been watching since episode one. Go me! Oak plus poop plus Fabreeze? Well that just sounds all kinds of yummy to me…. mmmm mmmmm. Is there ever a show where you dont have a totally bizzare way to decsribe a wine? Yes or no, its a part of the brilliance of WLTV. Yet again, ive never had a Red Zin but promise that I will in the future. The 2001 Sky sounds like it would make my pallate happy.
QOTD: Journey. Yes, the band Journey. How can you not like the absolute dorkiness of this band? And Steve Perry’s voice? Come on! Not the greatest songs by a long shot, but something about Perry’s voice and Neil Schon on guitar (he was in Santana, you know) make it work.

How much oak is “too much”? Is it diminishing the fruit of the wine? Is it overbearing? Does it dominate the wine? Or is it merely a key characteristic that YOU don’t particularly care for? I have been to Trinitas, loved their wines.

GO RAIDERS!

QOTD: Top Gun.

qotd vin jaunes
& Gary, it would be great to see you have one on the show one day

OMG. Frack LA!